When detecting a valid protective MBR, the Linux kernel isn't picky about
the partition (1-4) the 0xEE is at, but, unlike other operating systems,
it does require it to begin at the second sector (sector 1). This check,
apart from it not being enforced by UEFI, and causing Linux to potentially
fail to detect any *valid* partitions on the disk, can present problems
when dealing with hybrid MBRs[1].
For compatibility reasons, if the first partition is hybridized, the 0xEE
partition must be small enough to ensure that it only protects the GPT
data structures - as opposed to the the whole disk in a protective MBR.
This problem is very well described by Rod Smith[1]: where MBR-only
partitioning programs (such as older versions of fdisk) can see some of
the disk space as unallocated, thus loosing the purpose of the 0xEE
partition's protection of GPT data structures.
By dropping this check, this patch enables Linux to be more flexible when
probing for GPT disklabels.
[1] http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html#reactions
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per the UEFI Specs 2.4, June 2013, the starting lba of the partition that
has the EFI GPT (0xEE) must be set to 0x00000001 - this is obviously the
LBA of the GPT Partition Header.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kernel's GPT implementation currently uses the generic 'struct
partition' type for dealing with legacy MBR partition records. While this
is is useful for disklabels that we designed for CHS addressing, such as
msdos, it doesn't adapt well to newer standards that use LBA instead, such
as GUID partition tables. Furthermore, these generic partition structures
do not have all the required fields to properly follow the UEFI specs.
While a CHS address can be translated to LBA, it's much simpler and
cleaner to just replace the partition type. This patch adds a new
'gpt_record' type that is fully compliant with EFI and will allow, in the
next patches, to add more checks to properly verify a protective MBR,
which is paramount to probing a device that makes use of GPT.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Read block device partition table from command line. The partition used
for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device. It is no MBR, save
storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed by absolute address of
data on the block device. Users can easily change the partition.
This code reference MTD partition, source "drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c"
About the partition verbose reference
"Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt"
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk text]
[yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn: fix error return code in parse_parts()]
Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@huawei.com>
Cc: Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Graft AIX partitions enumeration into partitions/msdos.c
There is already a AIX disks detection logic in msdos.c. When an AIX disk
has been found, and if configured to, call the aix partitions recognizer.
This avoids removal of AIX disks protection from msdos.c, avoids code
duplication, and ensures that AIX partitions enumeration is called before
plain msdos partitions enumeration.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c.
AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple
slices of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the
"logical volumes" which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a
slice being a contiguous disk area. The code also detects "logical
volumes" made of multiple slices on the probed disk, but can not
describe them to the partition layer, because the partition layer
generic code does not support that. When such non-contiguous "logical
volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is printed.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In alloc_read_gpt_entries and alloc_read_gpt_header, the kzalloc'ated
zones are either totally overwritten by the following read_lba call,
or freed. As kmalloc is cheaper than kzalloc, use kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, sizeof(struct parsed_partitions) may be 64KB in 32bit arch, so
it is easy to trigger page allocation failure by check_partition,
especially in hotplug block device situation(such as, USB mass storage,
MMC card, ...), and Felipe Balbi has observed the failure.
This patch does below optimizations on the allocation of struct
parsed_partitions to try to address the issue:
- make parsed_partitions.parts as pointer so that the pointed memory can
fit in 32KB buffer, then approximate 32KB memory can be saved
- vmalloc the buffer pointed by parsed_partitions.parts because 32KB is
still a bit big for kmalloc
- given that many devices have the partition count limit, so only
allocate disk_max_parts() partitions instead of 256 partitions always
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It isn't necessary to read the information of partitions whose number is
equal and more than state->limit since only maximum state->limit
partitions will be added inside rescan_partitions().
That is also what other kind of partitions are doing.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
UEFI 2.3.1D will include a change to the spec language mandating that a
GPT header must be greater than *or equal to* the size of the defined
structure. While verifying that this would work on Linux, I discovered
that we're not actually checking the minimum bound at all.
The result of this is that when we verify the checksum, it's possible that
on a malformed header (with header_size of 0), we won't actually verify
any data.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
AIX formatted disks do not always have the MSDOS 55aa signature.
This happens e.g. for unbootable AIX disks.
Up to now, such disks were not recognized as AIX disks, because of the
missing 55aa. Fix that by inverting the two tests. Let's first
check for the AIX magic strings, and only if that fails check for
the MSDOS magic word.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
"Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The
branch contains:
- A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
situation on individual pulls can be improved.
- A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.
- Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a
generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
also using it.
- A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.
- Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
to be used as an identifier."
* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
drbd: Remove obsolete check
drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
xen-blkfront: free allocated page
xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
cciss: use check_signature()
cciss: cleanup bitops usage
drbd: use copy_highpage
drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
...
The Kconfig currently enables MSDOS partitions by default because they
are assumed to be essential, but it's necessary to enable "advanced
partition selection" in order to get GPT support. IMO GPT partitions
are becoming common enought to deserve the same treatment MSDOS
partitions get.
(Side note: I got bit by a disk that had MSDOS and GPT partition
tables, but for some reason the MSDOS table was different from the
GPT one. I was stupid enought to disable "advanced partition
selection" in my .config, which disabled GPT partitioning and made
my btrfs pool unbootable because it couldn't find the partitions)
Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The MSDOS/MBR partition table includes a 32-bit unique ID, often referred
to as the NT disk signature. When combined with a partition number within
the table, this can form a unique ID similar in concept to EFI/GPT's
partition UUID. Constructing and recording this value in struct
partition_meta_info allows MSDOS partitions to be referred to on the
kernel command-line using the following syntax:
root=PARTUUID=0002dd75-01
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This will allow other types of UUID to be stored here, aside from true
UUIDs. This also simplifies code that uses this field, since it's usually
constructed from a, used as a, or compared to other, strings.
Note: A simplistic approach here would be to set uuid_str[36]=0 whenever a
/PARTNROFF option was found to be present. However, this modifies the
input string, and causes subsequent calls to devt_from_partuuid() not to
see the /PARTNROFF option, which causes different results. In order to
avoid misleading future maintainers, this parameter is marked const.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In some usage scenarios it is desireable to work with disk images or
virtualized DASD devices. One problem that prevents such applications
is the partition detection in ibm.c. Currently it works only for
devices that support the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl, in other words, it only
works for devices that belong to the DASD device driver.
The information gained from the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl is only for a small
set of legacy cases abolutely necessary. All current VOL1, LNX1 and
CMS1 type of disk labels can be interpreted correctly without this
information, as long as the generic HDIO_GETGEO ioctl works and
provides a correct disk geometry.
This patch makes the ibm.c partition detection as independent as
possible from the BIODASDINFO2 ioctl. Only the following two cases are
still restricted to real DASDs:
- An FBA DASD, or LDL formatted ECKD DASD without any disk label.
- An old style LNX1 label (without large volume support) on a disk
with inconsistent device geometry.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To avoid confusion while formatting a DASD device change the level of
the "Expected VOL1 label not found" message from warning to info.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Extended VBLKs (those larger than the preset VBLK size) are divided
into fragments, each with its own VBLK header. Our LDM implementation
generally assumes that each VBLK is contiguous in memory, so these
fragments must be assembled before further processing.
Currently the reassembly seems to be done quite wrongly - no VBLK
header is copied into the contiguous buffer, and the length of the
header is subtracted twice from each fragment. Also the total
length of the reassembled VBLK is calculated incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Davidlohr Bueso
Cai Zhiyong
Philippe De Muyter
Ming Lei
Peter Jones
Linus Torvalds
Diego Calleja
Stephen Warren
Stefan Weinhuber
Stefan Haberland
Anton Altaparmakov
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